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FAST FASHION VS SUSTAINABLE FASHION - INSIGHTS FROM CONSUMERS & INDUSTRY 6:00 PM
Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association
Opening Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd
Address by the Speaker
Mr Venky Nagan
Mr Venky Nagan
Group CEO
Group CEO
Asmara International Ltd, Hongkong
Asmara International Ltd, Hongkong
Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees
SATURDAY OCT 3, 2020 | 6.00 PM
Mr Sarbajit Ghose Executive Director, Asia, of CIEL Textile Ltd
Mr Nitin Gupta COO - Design, Innovation & Business Development, Arvind Ltd
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7:45 PM
Webinar Ends
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Fashion connotes freshness and a feel-good factor for consumers. It also provides employment to workers in many developing countries. However, fashion apparel and footwear is one of the most wasteful industries in the world. While the inputs to factories include 100 Million tons of oil and 30 Trillion gallons of water per year apart from fertilizers/pesticides/chemical dyes, discarded clothing/footwear add the equivalent of one garbage-truck of waste-products to landfills every second and most of this is incinerated. Half a million tons of microfibres from clothing are leaking into our oceans every year ! Will the fashion industry become more “Responsible” ? What are brands doing about sustainability and transparency ? How is technology solving these problems ? Are brands and consumers willing to support these initiatives ?
SPEAKER
SPECIAL
VENKY NAGAN
INVITEES
SARBAJIT GHOSE
NITIN GUPTA Nitin Gupta is the C.O.O – Design, Innovation
Venky Nagan is the Group C.E.O of
Sarbajit Ghose is the Executive
Asmara International Ltd., Hong Kong. He
Director, Asia, of CIEL Textile Ltd. and
did his B.E (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani followed by an MBA from IIM, Calcutta. Starting his career with the Leather Footwear Division of Pond’s India Ltd, he moved to the apparel industry after eight years at Pond's, to Gokaldas Images Group, Norwest Industries (Hong Kong)
a member of the Board of Directors. He is also the Managing Director of
& Business Development at Arvind Ltd. He is a NIFT graduate, a Designer and thoughtleader with over 18 years of experience covering leadership-roles in the Fashion Industry across Exports, Global Sourcing,
Laguna Clothing, a joint venture with
Designing, Creative Vision, Marketing
Tessitura Monti of Italy, exporting
Strategy and Digital Transformation. A strong
premium shirts.
believer in the power of digitalisation and
Before this, Sarbajit worked with the
and Sprandi International. In 2009, Venky
Unilever and with the Tatas.
joined the Asmara Group as Country
He is a mechanical engineer with an
Manager – Bangladesh and is now the
MBA for IIM Ahmedabad.
the symbiosis between sustainability and technology, he has been working on ways to make Fast Fashion sustainable. Currently heading the Active & Indigo Knits division at Arvind Limited and working on developing
CEO and managing partner of the Asmara
Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Digital
Group.
Product Transformation initiatives.
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